California · Nonprofit
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont McKenna College (California) receives grants from 212 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,300,406 to it, the largest being The Marie-Josee and Henry R Kravis Foundation ($37,000,000). 141 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Helen C S Botsford Tuwportfolio match
- Humphrey G Residuary Trustportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 56 funders to 101 funders, grant income rose $13M → $39M.
44 of 212 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $152k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Simons Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Claremont McKenna College raised.
From the IRS filings of Claremont McKenna College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 212 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Claremont McKenna College has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
26% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Claremont McKenna College.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 68% · 2019 26% · 2020 30% · 2021 32% · 2022 34% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of Claremont McKenna College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of Claremont McKenna College's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 212 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 94 organizations that share your funders
- Helen C S Botsford Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humphrey G Residuary Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committeeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Albert H Youngportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burton and Wemple Scholarship Fund Uwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asianetwork Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conrad H & Anna B Gillen Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pauline Smith Memorial Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kilkea Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 117 organizations that share your funders
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 173 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Claremont McKenna College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.8M on record.
- National Science Foundation$8.4M
- Department of Education$6.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
- Department of Defense$584k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$75k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Claremont McKenna College
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Claremont McKenna College Holdings LLC · disregarded
- The Claremont Colleges Inc · exempt
- Claremont McKenna College Foundation · exempt
- Children's Education Center of Claremont · exempt
- Claremont Investment Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Claremont McKenna College: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College?
- Claremont McKenna College (California) receives grants from 212 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,300,406 to it, the largest being The Marie-Josee and Henry R Kravis Foundation ($37,000,000). 141 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Claremont McKenna College have?
- IRS filings report 212 organizations giving $183,300,406 in grants to Claremont McKenna College, 141 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Claremont McKenna College?
- The Marie-Josee and Henry R Kravis Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $37,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Claremont McKenna College find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 212funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing